Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . ied Yale 1863—Columbia 1865. o ..,,,,„. „ , . in April 1860, INLary Stuart Whitney of New York Born m New York City, 1842; educated in a private f J J 1 school in New Haven ; graduated Yale, 1863 ; Colum- ^ity, and has four children : Eweretta, Frederic, bia Law School, 1S65; in office of Hon. Abraham R. Mary Stuart and Whitney Kernochan. UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 393 FRENCH, Asa Yale 1831 — Harva
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . ied Yale 1863—Columbia 1865. o ..,,,,„. „ , . in April 1860, INLary Stuart Whitney of New York Born m New York City, 1842; educated in a private f J J 1 school in New Haven ; graduated Yale, 1863 ; Colum- ^ity, and has four children : Eweretta, Frederic, bia Law School, 1S65; in office of Hon. Abraham R. Mary Stuart and Whitney Kernochan. UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 393 FRENCH, Asa Yale 1831 — Harvard in Braintree, Mass., 1829; educated at publicschools and Leicester Academy; graduated Yale, 1851;Harvard Law School 1853; admitted to Suffolk, Mass.,Bar, 1854 ; Representative in Mass. Legislature, 1866 ;District Atty., Mass., 1870-82 ; Commissioner of InlandFisheries, Mass. ; Judge of Court of Alabama Claims,1882; Trustee of Thayer Academy and Public Library,Braintree. AS.\ FRENCH, Jurist, was born in Braintree,Massachusetts, October 21, 1829, where hisancestors lived from the time of its settlement, theson of Jonathan and Sarah Brackett (Hayward). ASA FRENCH French. He received his early education in thepubHc schools of Braintree and at Leicester Academyand was graduated at Yale in the Class of studying law for a time at Albany, he enteredthe Harvard Law School, graduating in 1853 andbeing admitted to the New York Bar the same continued his studies in the office of David and Harvey Jewell in Boston and wasadmitted to practice at the ^Lassachusetts Bar in1854. While practising mostly in Boston, where hehas his office, he has continued to reside in Brain-tree, and was chosen to represent that town in theLegislature of 1866, and in 1870 was appointed byGeneral Claflin to succeed the Hon. f^lward as District Attorney for the Southeastern District of Massachusetts, on the resignation of thelatter in 1870. Mr. French
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